Wollstonecraft often had to protect her mother from the drunken frenzy of her father, the son of a master weaver from London who tried unsuccessfully to set himself up as a gentleman farmer1. ... Wollstonecraft embraced a religion that combined faith with reason, morality with knowledge, and which placed no limits on human inquiry. ... Wollstonecraft described marriage as "legal prostitution" and further that women "may be convenient slaves, but slavery will have its constant effect, degrading the master and the abject dependent13." ...

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The Double Standards of Citizenship and Identity Both Martha Nussbaum and W.E.B Du Bois dedicate their philosophical writings to support the value of human rights. Both writers believe that through education, these values can be effectively transmitted and true citizens can be created. In For ...

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However, people still put the interested in money and power more than morality: "African who refused to work for the Belgian was routinely beaten to death. ... Especially in the West Africa, "despite worldwide condemnation of slaver, and laws against it, as many as eight million Africans died from overwork or were slaughter by their master in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries" (Off 71). ...

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